National Black Chamber of Commerce comes out in favor of Sirius-XM merger
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Tags: 2, XM
The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) voiced their support today for the merger between XM and Sirius, urging the FCC to act swiftly in its approval.Formed in 1993, the NBCC represents 95,000 African American owned businesses and provides an advocacy that reaches all 1 million Black owned businesses.
“Satellite radio is critical to the programming needs of African Americans,” said Harry Alford, NBCC president and CEO in a letter to the FCC. “Both companies offer dozens of channels that are targeted to African American entrepreneurs, entertainers, and consumers. A combined company will improve efficiency, expanding the breadth of these offerings while offering African Americans more choices at lower prices.”
Only a few weeks ago, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps had some very harsh words to say about the current state of diversity in the media. "Our media have an obligation to reflect our country's diversity. They have an obligation to nourish our country's diversity. It's a job not getting done," Copps said.
With this in mind, the support of the NBCC could then hold some significance.
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Even though it has no bearing to the topic at hand, allow me to express my undying devotion to Howard Stern and mention that Opie and Anthony aren't on the air.
MORE COCKS, PLEASE!
Posted by: sternfan73 | May 21, 2007 1:18 PM
Ryan you might want to post to let everybody know that Sat 1 (East Coast) on XM is down and all terrestrial repeaters off that sat are down as well. Signal is VERY intermittent at best and without dual sats, your radio can't buffer.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward | May 21, 2007 1:27 PM
again i didn't make that post.
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Posted by: sternfan73 ? | May 21, 2007 2:45 PM
Even though it as no bearing to the topic at hand, allow me to express my undying devotion to Opie and Anthony and mention that Howard Stern is a cunt.
Posted by: OnAfan83 | May 21, 2007 2:46 PM
>>Even though it as no bearing to the topic at hand, allow me to express my undying devotion to Opie and Anthony and mention that Howard Stern is a cunt.
No, Robin is the cunt, Howard is the Hook Nosed Jew.
Posted by: sternfan73 | May 21, 2007 3:52 PM
OnAfan83 : Please don't turn this into an O+A vs. Stern thing.
I was only pointing out that sternfan73 is an enourmous troll faggot who can't resist shitting up every topic on Orbitcast with his stupidity.
Don't ruin it for me, please.
Posted by: sternfan73 | May 21, 2007 3:52 PM
Tell em Fred!
0.0...yes.. that is my IQ Test Score.
Posted by: sternfan73 | May 21, 2007 4:03 PM
again i have not made any posts here .
Posted by: sternfan73 ? | May 21, 2007 5:00 PM
I apologize for being such a troll. I'm not sure who is using my screen name but it has become obvious to me that I am just being a troll.
Posted by: sternfan73 | May 22, 2007 10:02 AM
That's got to mean something... wait, what was the story about?? Who? Did What?? Then what happened??
Posted by: hard harry hardon | May 22, 2007 7:11 PM